Thursday 25/3, 13 – 15: Course introduction (PK, AK)

Course coordinators Annica Kronsell (annica.kronsell@gu.se) and Per Knutsson (per.knutsson@gu.se) welcome you to the course and provide an in-depth go through of the course aims, structure, content, forms of learning, examinations etc.

The introduction will be held via zoom. We open zoom at 13.00 but will start at 13.15.

Join Zoom Meeting: https://gu-se.zoom.us/j/65820401954?pwd=TWtqd3pkQUJZbmZIWFNLUUc1M2Zwdz09

Meeting ID: 658 2040 1954. Passcode: 937188

The following readings are important as they illustrate the relevance of the course and can be consulted throughout the course. It is good if you familiarise yourself with these texts prior to the introduction:

IPCC (2018). Summary for policymakers. Global Warming at 1,5 degrees 2018: http://report.ipcc.ch/sr15/pdf/sr15_spm_final.pdf

IPCC (2014) Impacts, adaptation and vulnerability, the Fifth Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change [Field, C.B., V.R. Barros, D.J. Dokken, K.J. Mach, M.D. Mastrandrea,T.E. Bilir, M. Chatterjee, K.L. Ebi, Y.O. Estrada, R.C. Genova, B. Girma, E.S. Kissel, A.N. Levy, S. MacCracken, P.R. Mastrandrea, and L.L. White (eds.)]. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, United Kingdom and New York, NY, USA, selected parts and for reference. http://www.ipcc.ch/report/ar5/wg2/